Senior Accountant Headline

The finance team is looking for someone passionate about technology with a roll-up-their-sleeves mentality to join our global team. You’ll play a crucial role in driving financial excellence, leveraging your expertise to analyse intricate statements and provide invaluable insights that fuel Fireblocks’ success. If you want to be an industry leader on a team experiencing hyper-growth, look no further!

This role will be based in Singapore to own day-to-day accounting and statutory reporting for our APAC entities — Singapore, Australia, and Japan. This is a hands-on role combining execution and ownership: closing the books, preparing statutory accounts, managing local audits, and partnering with the global finance team on group reporting.

• Own end-to-end accounting and financial reporting for the Singapore, Australia, and Japan entities, including general ledger integrity, month-end and quarter-end close,and statutory accounts.
• Maintain accurate financial records and processes in compliance with local accounting standards and Fireblocks group accounting policies.
• Own the end-to-end Accounts Payable cycle: vendor onboarding, invoice processing, approval workflow, payment runs, and AP-to-GL reconciliation.
• Prepare and review accruals, prepayments, and other month-end schedules across the APAC entities.
• Manage daily banking operations across APAC entities, including bank and credit card reconciliations, cash position monitoring, and supporting treasury on intercompany funding movements.
• Review employee expense reports and travel claims for policy compliance, and oversee reimbursement processing.
• Lead month-end and quarter-end close for the APAC entities, including balance sheet reconciliations, cut-off journals, accruals, and flux/variance analysis.
• Review monthly payroll across SG, AU, and JP, including statutory contributions, payroll journals, and reconciliation to the GL.
• Prepare statutory accounts for the APAC entities, manage external audits end-to-end, and ensure compliance with local regulatory filing requirements.
• Prepare annual tax information and quarterly GST/VAT returns, working with external tax advisors as needed.
• Identify and implement opportunities to streamline and automate accounting processes using AI tools.
• Partner with the global finance team, cross-functional stakeholders, and external vendors and advisors to support business operations and finance initiatives.
• Handle ad hoc accounting projects as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of accounting experience, including hands-on ownership of month-end
• Close, statutory accounts, and external audit liaison.
• Experience in a high-growth tech or fintech environment, with the ability to work in ambiguity and build processes from the ground up.
• Hands-on NetSuite experience across core accounting modules (GL, AP, banking).
• GAAP proficient.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel.
• Experienced with and comfortable using AI tools on a day-to-day basis to improve accounting workflows, with curiosity to explore new applications as they emerge.
• Working knowledge of GST and corporate tax reporting requirements across Singapore, Australia, and Japan.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience working across cultures and time zones in a globally distributed team.
• Ownership mindset, with a bias toward action and continuous improvement.

We’d love for you to have financial services, fintech, blockchain, cybersecurity, or crypto industry experience, but that is not a requirement. We have a comprehensive onboarding and training program for all new employees.